ORCHIDS : HOW TO GROW THEM SUCCESSFULLY. 103 



CffiLOGYNE MASSANGEANA. From the East Indies. 



This is a free growing Orchid and very floriferous when the plants 

 are strong, producing its spikes freely. It should be grown in peat 

 and sphagnum, and is best suited for a basket plant, as the flowers are 

 borne on long pendulous spikes from 12 to 24 inches long, sometimes 

 bearing as many as twenty-four flowers on one spike, and when these 

 are drooping over the side of the basket the plant has a very pleasing 

 appearance, although void of any brilliancy of colour light yellow 

 and brown predominating. This Orchid should have liberal supplies of 

 water when actively growing, and when inactive it should be kept 

 moderately dry, but never dry enough to cause the pseudobulbs 

 to shrivel. 



Good plants should be purchased at from 5s. to 7s. 6d. per strong 

 leading growth. Established. 



CYMBLDIUM EBURNEUM. From the East Indies. 



Another free growing Orchid, and, like the last named, it soon 

 grows into a large specimen when the surrounding conditions are 

 favourable, and when they become large plants they flower much more 

 freely than when small. It is best grown in pots, in very fibrous loam 

 and lumpy but not necessarily very fibrous peat in equal proportions, 

 intermixed with sharp silver or river sand and a little finely broken 

 charcoal to keep the soil sweet and porous. The pots should be a third 

 full of drainage, and not too small, for if the large fleshy roots of this 

 species are too cramped it is impossible to work the soil down between 

 them, and they must be made moderately firm, otherwise the roots 

 will be crowded into the pots in a mass with no soil worked in between 

 them, but only about them, in which case they invariably rot. The 

 surface of the soil should not be above or even level with the rim of the 

 pot, as is recommended for epiphytal Orchids, or the water runs oT 

 instead of into the plant. There should at least be half an inch of 

 space below the rim to receive water. The flowers are borne singly or 

 in pairs, and are a beautiful pure white, with a slight streak of yellow 

 on the lip, and are very sweet scented. It should be watered only 

 when dry, like an ordinary plant, and will succeed best in a cool, shady 

 part of the house, where, if due attention is given to the watering and 

 potting, it soon grows into a good specimen plant, and the stronger the 

 growth the more freely it flowers. 



Good plants, capable of producing from three or four flowers, can 

 be purchased at from 10s. to 20s. Established. 



CYPRIPEDIUM x HARRISIANUM. Garden Hybrid. 

 A very free growing and floriferous Lady's Slipper, which should 

 be potted as recommended for Cypripediums (see page 35), and given a 

 place in a somewhat shady and moist part of the house. It delights in 



